So if you were online at an point in late 2023, you probably remember seeing an ad where Julia Roberts and her family were on a beach vacation and an oil tanker got closer and closer and closer and closer to the beach until it ran right up onto the shore. I never watched the …
Month: May 2025
Cheat Days
In my mission statement of sorts, I've mentioned how I work in a few "cheat days" into every year. They consist of two Friends of the Library sales, tent day sales at my LCS (usually FCBD and Thanksgiving weekend) and the Baltimore Comic-Con. Well, the first set of those recently passed. I only started going …
Return of the Abandoned Writing Projects
I've written about this before, but the other day, I was flipping through a notebook of essay ideas and notes and realized that many of them have sat unwritten for nearly 5 years. I started flipping trhough them--mainly because I was procrastinating on writing--and wound up feeling a weird range of emotion. Okay, that sounds …
Star Trek (DC Comics, 2nd Series)
The vast majority of my digital comics are Star Trek books that were ripped from a DVD-ROM a few years ago (thanks to J. David Weter for sending it my way), and I've been slowly making my way through all of them. And the DVD-ROM, which came out sometime in the 2000s, was pretty comprehensive …
Uncollecting Update April 2025
As always, let’s start with the numbers … Physical Comics Read: 15 (54/89) Digital Comics Read: 7 (418/435) Trades/Graphic Novels Read: 2 (0/0) Books Read: 3 (80/93) Movies Watched: 0 (207/209) TV Shows Watched: 0 (52/52) TV Seasons Watched: 0 (96/96) Podcast Episodes to Listen to: 83 The month was busy. In fact, so busy that this weekend is the first "weekend" I …
The Uncollecting 